Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicMastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitabl... Read more »| 14 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Grand Ole Opry makes an unlikely venue in which to see The Twilight Sad. With confederacy flags and neon lighting adorning each wall, a neutral observer ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012 -
MusicRoedelius – Plays Piano
If every piece of music has its place, then Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ Plays Piano fits neatly into the background. That may pass as a compliment struc... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012 -
MusicIn Pictures: The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February Kilsyth's Twilight Sad unleash new album No One Can Ever Know on Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry at the start of thei... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Film
Her Private Hell
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Theatre
Dancin' across the Country
Both Ballet West and Curious Seed, who are touring this month, are reminders of dance's versality. Ballet West are staging the romantic classic, Swan Lake, w... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012
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Music
Mull Historical Society / Washington Irving @ O2ABC, 3 February
Tonight is Washington Irving’s second visit to ABC as part of Celtic Connections 2012. The first occupied the smaller ABC2, but the band seems undaunte... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
Film
The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
Music
Mystery Juice – Eye For An Aye EP
Big in Russia: an idiom not as often heard as ‘big in Japan’. Despite their successes in the former Soviet Union - they've released two Russian-o... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012 -
Music
Various Artists – SID Chip Sounds: The Music of the Commodore 64
Fans of chiptune artists like DJ Scotch Egg will be aware of the central role played by Commodore 64 music in 90s and 00s gabba/breakcore; more recently, con... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012 -
ArtLuke Fowler @ Inverleith House, 12 Feb - 29 Apr
Artist Luke Fowler is best known for his documentary films about radical thinkers on the fringes of society. Made using largely found footage, his 2006 film ... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012 -
Music
Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
We Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Big Pink: "We needed to create a different energy"
As The Big Pink trade in their explosive debut's distortion, Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze tell us why their live show will be all change on Valentine's Day Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
Wild Flag / Peggy Sue @ Òran Mór, 30 January
Both of tonight’s acts, while ostensibly steeped in well-trodden approaches to rock, manage to infuse their music with bursts of startling vitality. ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012